When we concluded that we needed a voiceover for a TV news package that appears in the second half of 16 Heads and Counting, I knew we had an opportunity for some really fun casting. Here’s what we wound up with:

It seemed natural to look for someone with a public persona, someone who is experienced in public speaking and broadcast journalism and knows how to handle a microphone. Kyle Dyas is the music director for KUNC, Fort Collins’ NPR station, and he’s an actor with Openstage Theatre, and now he’s in our movie! It was a lot of fun working with someone whose voice I’ve heard literally thousands of times over the past dozen or so years but whom I had never met. Plus, he did a great job laying on the sensationalism with a trowel, as I think you’ll agree.

Incidentally, it’s really a disorienting experience to have a radio personality call you on the phone. It’s like Guglielmo Marconi and Alexander Graham Bell got into a fistfight and wound up making out with each other (or something like that).

Anyway, today was a sound recording day. We got this, and we finally did the ADR for Sarah Anderson (David’s unlucky date) and we got two scenes done with the Voice.